Loomer's way outta pocketNo, She Didn't Party With Diddy: Dumb Misinfo Swirls Around Kamala Harris
MAGA influencers get to work circulating sexist and racist misinformation about Vice President Kamala Harris as she seeks nomination for presidentwww.rollingstone.com
No, She Didn’t Party With Diddy: Dumb Misinfo Swirls Around Kamala Harris
MAGA world is trying to smear the vice president with made-up connections, edited images, and deepfakes
The falsehoods, faked images, and innuendos that Donald Trump loyalists are currently trying out against his potential new opponent tend toward the sexually lurid. His voting bloc is quite interested, for example, in footage and pictures of Harris with TV host Montel Williams at a Los Angeles charity event in 2001, when the two briefly dated. (Williams had just divorced his second wife, while Harris would marry her husband, Doug Emhoff, in 2014.) It’s a random bit of trivia that surfaces now and then, usually to Williams’ annoyance.
In a since-deleted tweet that was filtered for hate speech, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer went a step further, falsely alleged that Harris “was once an escort” and got her start by “giving blow jobs to successful, rich, black men.” Loomer drew attention to Harris’ relationship with California politician and future San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown in the Nineties; that decade, he appointed her to two state administrative boards. But Loomer went astray again by implying that Harris dated Williams at the same time as the second woman posing in the 2001 video with him. In fact, that’s Williams’ daughter, Ashley Williams.
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